Our Ears Are Burning: April 7

Here is todays round-up of varied international coverage of the Canadian election.

Be careful who you mess with. CatholicCulture.org reports on the request by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Chief Electoral Officer to accommodate election workers during Holy Week. (Once again the church of my forefathers is on the vanguard of the pressing issues of the day.)

ARTISTdirect.com follows Nelly Furtado's twitter campaign to get out the vote, noting, oddly, that she takes the campaign as seriously as a "gonorrhea diagnosis". That does sound pretty serious - I wonder what CatholicCulture thinks about that.

My favourite agribusiness magazine Feedstuffs picks up a story that I have not seen in the Canadian press at all: a two-hour farm issues debate hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture on April 11. The Greens have been invited to this debate. Why wouldn't the Globe or the Post deign to write a real story about rural agricultural issues as a lead-up to this debate?

The World Socialist Web Site notes the complete lack of debate on Libya and Afghanistan and offers an interesting critique of the all-party support for the wars and the re-arming of the Canadian Forces. Fascinating stuff if you can get past the repeated use of the word "imperialist".

India figured prominently in the Canadian election according to the Hindustan Times and the Times of India with the announcement that Canada will pursue a free trade pact with India for 2013.

-BC